Posted on 10/23/2008 4:58:53 PM PDT by BGHater
VIRGINIA BEACH - A pet snake may have strangled its owner to death in Virginia Beach earlier this week, police say.
Amanda Ruth Black, 25, was found dead in her home on Maracas Arch around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. Her husband called police and said he found her lying in front of the pet snake's large cage, which was empty.
Police spokesman Adam Bernstein said the medical examiner's preliminary report found that the woman died from "asphyxiation caused by neck compression." Investigators are still awaiting the final results of the autopsy.
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That’s the nature of a snake.
He can’t help himself but I cannot help being suspicious of the boyfriend. That is my nature.
OK, I’ll be first.
Darwin Award!
My money’s on the HUSBAND.
Hmmm...any insurance policies? Not made out to the snake...
perfect crime - like dry ice bullets.
Why do people keep snakes as etc pets, especially 13’ pythons.
Early voter?
Yes, a local man was recently convicted for shooting his wife with a crossbow while she worked out on the treadmill. Get this, it was the second time he had shot her with the same cross bow. Something could be in the water if Va. Bch.
It was the husband. Check for a mistriss and/or recent insurance policy.
Scott Petersen is probably kicking himself, in between biting the pillow that is.
Did you see the article about the teacher in Texas who brought non poisonous snakes to school yesterday I think. Two kids were bitten, started to swell and taken to hospital.
One of the non poisonous snakes was a cottonmouth. Nasty nasty bites,,put you in the hospital for weeks.
Take me in oh tender woman, take me in for heaven’s sake...
Like many, I’ve been watching too many TV procedurals and I immediately thought that this could be the perfect crime, with someone using a ligature of the same approximate thickness as the snake.
Biologists will be shocked to find the snake used its ten fingers to strangle the woman.
I expect her to vote the same day as the rest of us. I'd guess that ACORN has a team in charge of making sure that the recently deceased are reliable voters.
brilliant..
Me too. I suspect everyone and everything. Hah!
One less vote for Obama.
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